Amasis

(Ring of) same as Polycrates' Ring. Polycrates, tyrant
of Samos, was so fortunate in everything that Amasis, King of Egypt,
advised him to part with something which he highly prized. Polycrates
accordingly threw into the sea an engraved ring of extraordinary value.
A few days afterwards, a fish was presented to the tyrant, in which the
ring was found. Amasis now renounced all friendship with Polycrates, as
a man doomed by the gods; and not long afterwards, a satrap, having
entrapped the too fortunate despot, put him to death by crucifixion. —Herodotus, iii. 40.